I was looking for a biography/history supplement for Mr. D who will be covering the late 1800s next term, remembered I had Destiny of the Republic in my Audible library, and started listening. It was absolutely fascinating, if also rather horrifying, and ranks right up there with The Boys in the Boat as one of… Continue Reading
Morning Time is getting off to a slow start this term, but I think writing out my plans here will help me clarify things. 🙂 Bible & Catechism: We’ll continue reciting and studying the Westminster Shorter Catechism using Training Hearts, Teaching Minds. I don’t like the modern version of the catechism used in the book –… Continue Reading
I don’t really have a method of picking a Word of the Year, something I have done for a few years now, except to think and pray and look for something that grabs my imagination. After loving Onward so much, I ordered Russell Moore’s latest book, The Courage to Stand: Facing Your Fear Without Losing… Continue Reading
Well, 2020 hasn’t been great for blogging, but it’s been pretty good for reading. 🙂 Here are short reviews of some of my favorites: books from four of my five categories for the Schole Sisters 5 x 5 Challenge (there wasn’t a stand-out for the fifth category of Plays), as well as my favorite novels.… Continue Reading
We start our first term of the 2020/2021 school year next week, although I think all of us are loathe to say good-bye to summer… Bible & Catechism: We’ll begin studying the Westminster Shorter Catechism with Training Hearts, Teaching Minds by Starr Meade (and continue memorizing it as well). I’ll have the boys take turns… Continue Reading
“We knew their silence wasn’t malicious. But no one had any idea what to do, and they weren’t asking. It was okay not to know what to do. It wasn’t okay not to ask what they could do.” The above is, for me, one of the biggest takeaways from this book. Sexual abuse is a… Continue Reading
Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever! Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he has redeemed from trouble and gathered in from the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south. Psalm 107:1-3 Even though this… Continue Reading
For Today Looking out my window…it was a hot one today! I am thinking…it’s the last week of homeschool for my daughter… I am thankful…for the young woman she has become. ♥ One of my favorite things…our shady yard, with perfect tree placement for a hammock. 😉 I am creating…well, I designed Aria’s high school… Continue Reading
I started reading The Mingling of Souls mostly for the first chapters about dating and courtship, since I find myself in that stage of parenting (!). And indeed those chapters were helpful, and I recommend them for those who are dating/courting as well as their parents and other mentors. Save the chapter on the wedding… Continue Reading
What a difference a month can make! Four weeks ago, we were coming off a busy robotics season and thinking about soccer starting up soon, and now…nothing, or what seems very much like it. But even in the midst of all the hard stuff going on in the world and in our own lives, there… Continue Reading